I was not involved in the least in the genesis of LINQ but I worked with the guys who were. The simple story is that VFP has a great data story and .Net didn't ... it's natural to mine that experience and talent and cross-fertilize.

And, really, when you think about it, enabling SQL like statements to mine data makes a lot of sense.

>>Originally, the C# team wanted nothing to do with this approach and now they appear to own it. Go figure.
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>Well John, I watched a video on the microsoft site about linq, and the project manager (I guess it was the project manager that was speaking), stated that "languages like FoxPro have these features"... (or something to that effect).
>Ahhh Ha! I said.